Wolfgang Kratzer; Mark M. Haenle; Andrea Voegtle; Richard A. Mason; Atilla S. Akinli; Klaus Hirschbuehl; Andreas Schuler; Volker Kaechele; the Roemerstein study group One of the limitations of our ...
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, MCP Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Chief, Division of Internal Medicine, Department ...
A patient complaining of abdominal pain has normal liver enzymes and a gallbladder wall polyp (but no stones) on ultrasound. What further intervention do you recommend? Gallbladder wall polyps can act ...
AJR: Recent multisociety guidelines that propose routine polyp surveillance with 2 mm size change as the basis for cholecystectomy are too conservative for clinical use “To our knowledge,” wrote ...
A recent survey of patients, primary physicians and gastroenterologists found that an overwhelming majority prefer endoscopic polypectomy for small polyps detected by screening CT colonography. These ...
Polyps in the gall bladder are fairly rare - most gall bladder problems are caused by gallstones. As with gallstones, the decision whether or not to have the gall bladder removed depends on the ...